Ram Singh was normal the night before: inmates
12 March 2013 6:55 AM IST
Ram Singh, the prime accused of December 16 gang rape and murder case who allegedly committed suicide in a high-security prison in Tihar on Monday, may have taken the extreme step between 3.30am and 5.45am while his four other cell inmates slept. According to jail officials, he might have hanged himself between 3.30am and 5.45am, as everything appeared normal till 3.30am, when change of guard took place.
At about 5.45am, one of the guards from Tamil Nadu Police saw the body of 35-year-old Singh hanging from a rod which was about 8 feet from the ground, jail sources said, adding he apparently used a bucket kept in the cell. The buckets are provided to every inmate. There were four other inmates sleeping in the cell but they apparently did not hear anything, they said. The inmates told the officials that Singh appeared quite normal on Sunday and had his food. They did not find anything amiss, the sources said. The high security prison has close circuit television camera installed but ‘it is in the corridor and not in the cell, where Singh was lodged,’ the officials said. Singh and his five associates, including a minor had raped a girl in a moving bus in south Delhi after brutally beating her and also her male friend on 16 December last year.
The girl died in a Singapore hospital on 29 December. Singh's family had last him last Friday, his lawyer said. Singh's father, Mange Ram and other family members visited Tihar jail at around 1.30pm on Monday. They were allowed to stay there for about two hours and see the body. Later they were asked by authorities to leave around 3.15pm. Later, at around 4.30pm, Singh's body was taken to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for postmortem, which was earlier planned at Deen Dayal Upadhayay Hospital, the sources said.
The postmortem of the body Ram Singh will be conducted on Tuesday.
SURPRISED BUT NOT SAD, SAYS VICTIM’S FAMILY
The family of the 16 December gang rape victim on Monday said they were ‘surprised but not saddened’ by the main accused in the case allegedly committing suicide and are waiting for the four others to be sent to the gallows. ‘We are surprised at the suicide but we are not sad. He would have been hanged even otherwise. Now we are waiting for the four others to be sent to gallows,’ he said.
At about 5.45am, one of the guards from Tamil Nadu Police saw the body of 35-year-old Singh hanging from a rod which was about 8 feet from the ground, jail sources said, adding he apparently used a bucket kept in the cell. The buckets are provided to every inmate. There were four other inmates sleeping in the cell but they apparently did not hear anything, they said. The inmates told the officials that Singh appeared quite normal on Sunday and had his food. They did not find anything amiss, the sources said. The high security prison has close circuit television camera installed but ‘it is in the corridor and not in the cell, where Singh was lodged,’ the officials said. Singh and his five associates, including a minor had raped a girl in a moving bus in south Delhi after brutally beating her and also her male friend on 16 December last year.
The girl died in a Singapore hospital on 29 December. Singh's family had last him last Friday, his lawyer said. Singh's father, Mange Ram and other family members visited Tihar jail at around 1.30pm on Monday. They were allowed to stay there for about two hours and see the body. Later they were asked by authorities to leave around 3.15pm. Later, at around 4.30pm, Singh's body was taken to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for postmortem, which was earlier planned at Deen Dayal Upadhayay Hospital, the sources said.
The postmortem of the body Ram Singh will be conducted on Tuesday.
SURPRISED BUT NOT SAD, SAYS VICTIM’S FAMILY
The family of the 16 December gang rape victim on Monday said they were ‘surprised but not saddened’ by the main accused in the case allegedly committing suicide and are waiting for the four others to be sent to the gallows. ‘We are surprised at the suicide but we are not sad. He would have been hanged even otherwise. Now we are waiting for the four others to be sent to gallows,’ he said.
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